Ivan Oakes Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Ivan Oakes Campground is located on Lookout Point Lake in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Keep reading
Recreation
Ivan Oakes Campground is located on the northern shore of Lookout Point Lake in the Calapooya Mountains. The Eugene-to-Pacific Crest Trail (EPCT), a 108 mile long recreation trail that connects the city of Eugene to the Cascade mountain range, runs along the campground providing easy access for hikers. The reservoir is a popular fishing spot with chinook salmon, walleye, rainbow trout, largemouth bass, and crappie.
Facilities
Ivan Oakes is a semi-primitive campground that offers 24 single family campsites. Campsites have picnic tables and fire rings. Vault toilets and potable water are available. Signal Point boat ramp is located less than one mile west of the campground and is usable at low water levels.
Natural Features
Located in the Calapooya Mountains, Ivan Oakes is surrounded by woodland. With close proximity to the Willamette National Forest, the area is home to lots of wildlife. The weather is generally mild during the recreation season with temperatures ranging from the low 50s to the upper 90s. Chances of precipitation are high from May through mid-June.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation changes or cancellations can be made through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Cancelling/Changing a Reservation A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount. Depending on when you cancel in relation to your arrival day, it may be considered a late cancellation (see below). Late Cancellations Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Group Facility: Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. No-Shows A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until 2pm on the day following the scheduled arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night’s recreation fee for a campsite. Early Departures If a customer departs prior to the scheduled check-out date, they may be eligible for a partial refund. Please notify staff at the facility if you depart early to allow others to use the site. Customers may notify the call center to request a refund of remaining unused nights. If a customer requests a refund for an early departure after the facility check-out time has passed, the customer will not be refunded for that night and is eligible for a refund on any additional nights that will not be used. Refunds Customers may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Customers may also initiate a refund request through the call center at any time after their reservation has ended. Debit or Credit Card Purchases: Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original card used to pay. Check or Cash Purchases: Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. You may update the address at the time you request the refund. It may take up to 6-8 weeks for the Treasury check to arrive. Please make sure your address is up to date in your customer profile.
What the agency tells you
There are no electricity, water, or sewer site hook-ups at this campground
This campground limits camping to 14 days in any 30 day window.
Two (2) vehicles per site allowed, included with reservation fee as long as vehicles fit on the driveway. No additional vehicles permitted, including visitor vehicles. Extra vehicle passes cannot be purchased. Purchasing campsites for the purpose of obtaining extra vehicle passes and/or parking additional vehicles on the site without occupying the site overnight with camping equipment is prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Campsite capacity is limited to eight (8) individuals and no additional visitors allowed at the campsite.
Maximum 1 camping unit (RV, trailer, etc) and 1 tent, or 2 tents per site. All tents must fit on impact pad.
This campground requires you to reserve 2 nights on weekends, and 3 nights on holiday weekends
For medical equipment that will need power, please bring your own battery back-up, as campers will not be allowed to run generators during quiet hours.
Pinning, nailing, stapling or tacking anything to campground trees is prohibited.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
The Signal Point Boat Ramp may be closed late August, due to a deep drawdown of Lookout Point Reservoir to help juvenile fish passage
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec
Campers must have the ability to transport their RV or Travel Trailer for the duration of their stay. Guests cannot drop off or leave unmotorized trailers if they are unable to remove them without delay.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 20 of 24 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…have picnic tables and fire rings. Vault toilets and potable water are available. Signal Point boat…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tables and fire rings. Vault toilets and potable water are available. Signal Point boat ramp is located…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Biking
- Hiking
- Water sports
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Cancelling/Changing a Reservation A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount.” · this campground’s own no-show terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Ivan Oakes | 1 | standard nonelectric | 171 ft | 81 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 10 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 208 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 11 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 299 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 12 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 371 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 13 | standard nonelectric | 134 ft | 189 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 14 | standard nonelectric | 134 ft | 316 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 15 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 129 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 16 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 185 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 17 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 265 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 18 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 338 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 19 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 54 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 2 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 119 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 20 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 55 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 21 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 86 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 22 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 115 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 23 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 102 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 24 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 114 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 3 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 106 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 4 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 137 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 5 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 210 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 6 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 323 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 7 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 395 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 8 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 339 ft | $22 |
| Ivan Oakes | 9 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 108 ft | $22 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR)Willamette National Forest · 6.1 mi
Timber Butte CabinWillamette National Forest · 6.1 miCascara Campground6.6 miDolly VardenWillamette National Forest · 6.7 miBroken BowlWillamette National Forest · 6.7 miBig Pool Group CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 7.2 miFrom Interstate 5, take Exit 188-A toward Oakridge (Highway 58). Follow Highway 58 East for about 13 miles. At Dexter Lake, turn left at the Lowell Covered Bridge onto South Pioneer Street and cross over the lake. Turn right at the first stop sign onto West Boundary Road/North Shore Drive. Follow this road to the top of Lookout Point Dam and continue for about 6 miles. You will pass some other access points including Signal Point Day Use Area. Ivan Oakes campground will be on the right side of the road about a mile past Signal Point.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lowell, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Ivan Oakes Campground is in Oregon’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Val Hoyle (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →